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Dec '255 min read

Filtering the feed: tags, tickers, and watchlists

A practical tour of Forecite's filter model — four tag dimensions, symbol lists, and how watchlists layer URL overrides on top of saved filters.

Sam Whitaker Developer Advocate

The firehose is the easy part; the filter is the product. This guide covers Forecite's filter model end to end — the four tag dimensions, ticker and provider filters, and the watchlist semantics that make saved views composable.

Four dimensions, one rule

Topic, market, country, and sector. Values within a dimension OR together; dimensions AND together. 'Earnings OR guidance, in US equities, in biotech' reads exactly the way you'd say it out loud.

Watchlists as base filters

A watchlist saves a filter as your default lens, and the URL can override it one axis at a time — swap the tickers while keeping the watchlist's tags, or clear a single dimension explicitly. Save the result as a new watchlist when a temporary view earns permanence.